.... kept hounds in kennel this past Sunday. 80 degrees and 90% humidity. We hunt the cornfields around Freddy's farm this early in the season. Freddy ran his beagles on Saturday and had to break them after only 15 minutes because they got overheated that fast. He called off the fox chase Saturday night- it was still 88 degrees at 9pm!
As soon as the thermometer dips below 70*F, we will go- regardless of what day of the week. However, the first day that is forecast to happen is not until this Sunday. And even then, , the low will be 69.
Right now, we have corn and soybeans planted in all of our hunt country. We cant let the hounds get into the beans, so we have to try and keep the fox in the corn. But the air inside the cornfields is stifling ,and even when we do go this time of year, the chases will be short- about an hour- unless we get a really cool night. (That's an hour from the time they jump their pilot before we hold them up). Of course, things dont always go as planned, but we've always been able to get to them and stop them in under 90 minutes.
Might get a call to hunt during the week this week, but only if the humidity lets up, since the lows forecast all week are in the 70's.
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